This blog poses that local preparedness cannot compensate for development, infrastructure, and investment decisions that systematically create and redistribute disaster risk.
Homes account for more than half of the disaster losses expected each year across the world’s building stock, according to global risk modelling provided by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Global modelling estimates US$228 billion in average annual residential building losses from cyclones, floods, tsunami and earthquakes, while new survey findings reveal critical gaps in household disaster preparedness.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Nobody knows a home's risks better than the people who live in it. These seven examples show what happens when women, young people and residents with disabilities help plan, build and check the work.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
When disasters are imminent, timely warnings can be the difference between life and death. However, warnings are only effective when they are received, understood, and acted on.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
The Government of Lao PDR, supported by the United Nations, NGOs and CSOs, launch an inclusive risk communication initiative and a video competition on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to improve early warnings.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Long before building codes, communities designed homes for earthquakes, heat and floods. Many of their techniques still work. Discover 6 examples of how time-tested traditional knowledge is making homes around the world more resilient. 🛖
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
When confronted by disaster, home is the first thing we fight to protect, and the first line of defence too. Resilience is innovated at the household level – through smarter design, better data and nature being put to work. 🌿
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
This collaborative endeavor aims to facilitate the exchange of challenges, lessons learned, and innovative practices in preparedness, response, and recovery across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Asian Institute of Technology - Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management Program
This 2023 background study presents estimates of the number of crisis-affected children and adolescents whose education was disrupted by climate shocks, as well as the number of forced displacements of school-aged children due to extreme weather events.
The study provides an account of progress, gaps and promising practices in including persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the region.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In 2023, the International Day will look at the reciprocal relationship between disasters and inequality. Inequality and disaster vulnerability are two sides of the same coin.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In an attempt to clarify key terms, and in keeping with its aim to bring coherence, alignment, and complementarity to the field of risk-informed early action, REAP has developed this glossary as a tool to support productive conversations around the topic.
This UNDRR-WMO joint report assesses the current global status of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) against Target G of the Sendai Framework, collating data officially reported by the Member States with data collected through a WMO survey.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
In 2022, the International Day will focus on Target G of the Sendai Framework: “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.”
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
This technical paper examines opportunities and options for enhancing adaptation action through education and training, and public and youth participation, including associated challenges.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
In 2021, the IDDRR focus is on Target f: “Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
